An early illustration of pioneer aircraft - Samuel Langley's machine - Flew half a mile in 1896 - Crashed and wrecked 1903. Samuel Pierpont Langley ( 1834 – 1906) was an American aviation astronomer, physicist and inventor of the bolometer ( a device for measuring electromagnetic radiation

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